Self-locking slide rail device with buffer mechanism

ABSTRACT

A self-locking slide rail device with buffer mechanism includes a slide rail, a fixing seat, a sliding seat, a hook member, two springs, a connecting member, and a buffer. The slide rail includes an outer rail and an inner rail. The fixing seat is disposed on a rear end of the outer rail, and has a body portion and a guiding extension portion. The sliding seat is disposed on the guiding extension portion. The hook member is disposed on the sliding seat. The two springs are disposed in parallel with each other on the fixing seat. The connecting member is disposed on the inner rail to interlink with the hook member. The buffer is disposed on the center of the body portion.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of priority to Taiwan PatentApplication No. 108129571, filed on Aug. 20, 2019. The entire content ofthe above identified application is incorporated herein by reference.

Some references, which may include patents, patent applications andvarious publications, may be cited and discussed in the description ofthis disclosure. The citation and/or discussion of such references isprovided merely to clarify the description of the present disclosure andis not an admission that any such reference is “prior art” to thedisclosure described herein. All references cited and discussed in thisspecification are incorporated herein by reference in their entiretiesand to the same extent as if each reference was individuallyincorporated by reference.

FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE

The present disclosure relates to a self-locking slide rail device withbuffer mechanism, and more particularly to a self-locking slide raildevice with buffer mechanism for ball slides or drawer slides.

BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

A conventional self-locking slide rail device with buffer mechanismusually includes many moving parts, which results in complicated andeasy-to-malfunction structure of the self-locking mechanism with buffermechanism.

Moreover, due to the vibration of the inner or the outer rail beingshaken, the meshing positions of the components in the self-lockingslide rail device with buffer mechanism may suffer from displacement, sothat the mechanism cannot perform its intended function.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

In response to the above-referenced technical inadequacies, the presentdisclosure provides a self-locking slide rail device with buffermechanism.

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a self-locking slide raildevice with buffer mechanism including a slide rail, a fixing seat, asliding seat, a hook member, two springs, a connecting member, and abuffer. The slide rail includes an outer rail and an inner rail, inwhich the outer rail defines a longitudinal axis direction and ahorizontal axis direction. Two ends of the slide rail along thelongitudinal axis direction are respectively defined as a front end anda rear end. The slide rail has a bottom plate of the outer rail, andsidewalls of the outer rail located on two sides of the bottom plate ofthe outer rail along the horizontal axis direction. The inner rail isdisposed on the outer rail, and the inner rail is capable ofreciprocally moving along the longitudinal axis direction between anopen position near the front end of the outer rail and a closed positionnear the rear end of the outer rail. The fixing seat is disposed on therear end of the outer rail, in which the fixing seat has a body portionand a guiding extension portion. The guiding extension portion isconnected to the front end of the body portion and extends towards adirection of the front end of the slide rail. The fixing seat has apositioning slot formed at the position near the front end position ofthe guiding extension portion. The sliding seat is slidably disposed onthe guiding extension portion and is capable of reciprocally movingbetween a first position adjacent to the front end of the guidingextension portion and a second position adjacent to the rear end of theguiding extension portion. The hook member is swingably disposed on thesliding seat, in which when the sliding seat moves to the firstposition, the hook member is capable of being engaged in the positioningslot so as to fixedly position the sliding seat at the first position.The two springs are disposed in parallel with each other on the fixingseat and two sides of the sliding seat along the horizontal axisdirection, in which two ends of each of the two springs are respectivelyconnected to the fixing seat and the sliding seat. The connecting memberis disposed on a side of a bottom plate of the inner rail facing towardsthe outer rail. When the inner rail moves to the closed position, theconnecting member is capable of driving the hook member to swing anddisengage from the positioning slot, such that the hook is coupled tothe connecting member. The inner rail and the sliding seat are capableof interlinking with each other by the hook member and the connectingmember so as to be capable of synchronous movement. The buffer isdisposed on the center of the body portion, and the buffer includes abuffer cylinder and a telescopic rod telescopically disposed within thebuffer cylinder. A front end of the telescopic rod is connected to therear end of the sliding seat and is capable of stretching along thelongitudinal axis direction. The sliding seat is capable of shorteningthe telescopic rod when the sliding seat moves toward the secondposition. The fixing seat has a first positioning engagement portionthat is disposed on the guiding extension portion and protrudes towardthe front end direction of the slide rail. The fixing seat further has asecond positioning engagement portion disposed between the firstpositioning engagement portion and the body portion. The slide railfurther includes a first positioning hook and a second positioning hookrespectively disposed on the positions where the bottom plate of theouter rail corresponds to the first positioning engagement portion andthe second positioning engagement portion. The first positioning hookengages with the first positioning engagement portion, and the secondpositioning hook engages with the second positioning engagement portion.Two side positioning members are respectively disposed on two sides ofthe body portion of the fixing seat along the horizontal axis direction.When the inner rail moves to the closed position, the rear end of theinner rail is accommodated between the two side positioning members.

These and other aspects of the present disclosure will become apparentfrom the following description of the embodiment taken in conjunctionwith the following drawings and their captions, although variations andmodifications therein may be affected without departing from the spiritand scope of the novel concepts of the disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present disclosure will become more fully understood from thefollowing detailed description and accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view of a self-locking slide raildevice with a buffer mechanism according to a first embodiment of thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 2 is an exploded partial view of the self-locking slide rail devicewith buffer mechanism according to the first embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the self-locking device withbuffer mechanism according to the first embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view taken from the bottom surface of thesliding seat according to the first embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a fixing seat according to the firstembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a planar view showing a state in which the fixing seat and thesliding seat are coupled with each other according to the firstembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a state in which the inner rail isclosed according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along line VIII-VIII of FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 and FIG. 10 are schematic views showing the interlinking mannerof the connecting member and the hook member when the slide rail isclosed.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing the interlinking manner of theconnecting member and the hook member when the slide rail is opened.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS

The present disclosure is more particularly described in the followingexamples that are intended as illustrative only since numerousmodifications and variations therein will be apparent to those skilledin the art. Like numbers in the drawings indicate like componentsthroughout the views. As used in the description herein and throughoutthe claims that follow, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise,the meaning of “a”, “an”, and “the” includes plural reference, and themeaning of “in” includes “in” and “on”. Titles or subtitles can be usedherein for the convenience of a reader, which shall have no influence onthe scope of the present disclosure.

The terms used herein generally have their ordinary meanings in the art.In the case of conflict, the present document, including any definitionsgiven herein, will prevail. The same thing can be expressed in more thanone way. Alternative language and synonyms can be used for any term(s)discussed herein, and no special significance is to be placed uponwhether a term is elaborated or discussed herein. A recital of one ormore synonyms does not exclude the use of other synonyms. The use ofexamples anywhere in this specification including examples of any termsis illustrative only, and in no way limits the scope and meaning of thepresent disclosure or of any exemplified term. Likewise, the presentdisclosure is not limited to various embodiments given herein. Numberingterms such as “first”, “second” or “third” can be used to describevarious components, signals or the like, which are for distinguishingone component/signal from another one only, and are not intended to, norshould be construed to impose any substantive limitations on thecomponents, signals or the like.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 11, a first embodiment of the presentdisclosure provides a self-locking slide rail device with a buffermechanism is illustrated. The self-locking slide rail device includes aslide rail 10, a fixing seat 20, a sliding seat 30, a hook member 40, aconnecting member 50, two springs 60, and a buffer 70.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the slide rail 10 includes an outer rail11 and an inner rail 12 disposed on the outer rail 11. For ease ofillustration, the direction parallel to the central axis of the sliderail 10 is defined as a longitudinal axis direction D1. The widthdirection of the slide rail 10 is defined as a horizontal axis directionD2, and two ends of the slide rail 10 along the longitudinal axisdirection D1 are respectively defined as a front end and a rear end.

In the present embodiment, the outer rail 11 has a bottom plate of theouter rail 111, and sidewalls of the outer rail 112 located on two endsof the outer rail 11 along the horizontal axis direction D2. The innerrail 12 is accommodated between the two sidewalls of the outer rail 112.The inner rail 12 has a bottom plate of the inner rail 121, and twosidewalls of the inner rail 122 located on two ends of the inner rail121 along the horizontal axis direction D2. The inner rail 12 has twogrooves 123 respectively disposed on the two sidewalls of the inner rail122. In the present embodiment, the inner rail 12 can reciprocally movebetween an open position extending from the outside of the front end ofthe outer rail 11 and a closed position near the rear end of the outerrail 11 by installing balls inside of the outer rail 11.

The fixing seat 20 disposed on the rear end of the outer rail 11 has abody portion 21 and a guiding extension portion 22 connected to a frontend of the body portion 21. The body portion 21 is disposed in anaccommodating space defined by the bottom plate of the outer rail 111and the two sidewalls of the outer rail 112. Two sides of the bodyportion 21 along the horizontal axis direction D2 each have a topsupport portion 211. When the body portion 21 is inserted into the rearend of the outer rail 11, outer sidewalls of the two top supportportions 211 can couple with inner sides of the two sidewalls of theouter rail 112 by interference such that the fixing seat 20 can be fixedon the rear end of the outer rail 11.

When the fixing seat 20 is assembled to the rear end of the outer rail11, the guiding extension portion 22 abuts against a side of the bottomplate of the outer rail 111 facing towards the inner rail 12, and theguiding extension portion 22 extends toward the front end of the sliderail 10. Two sides of the guiding extension portion 22 each form aguiding flange 233 along the horizontal axis direction D2. A positioningslot 23 is formed near the front end position of the guiding extensionportion 22, and a first positioning engagement portion 25 is formed onthe position in front of the positioning slot 23. A second positioningengagement portion 26 is formed between the first positioning engagementportion 25 and the front side of the body portion 21. A notch 261 isformed on the front position adjacent to the second positioningengagement portion 26.

As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 6, and FIG. 0.9, in the present embodiment, thecross-sectional shape of the first positioning engagement portion 25 andthe second positioning engagement portion 26 along the longitudinal axisdirection D1 are substantially rectangular, and protrude toward thefront of the slide rail 10. A first positioning hook 113 is disposed onthe bottom plate of the outer rail 111 opposite to the first positioningengagement portion 25. A second positioning hook 114 is disposed on thebottom plate of the outer rail 111 opposite to the second positioningengagement portion 26. In the present embodiment, the first positioningengagement portion 25 and the second positioning engagement portion 26each has a vertical portion connected to the bottom plate of the outerrail 111 and a horizontal portion connected to the end of the verticalportion. The horizontal portion of the first positioning engagementportion 25 and the second positioning engagement portion 26 extendtoward the rear end of the slide rail 10. The height of the spacebetween the bottom plate of the outer rail 111 and the bottom sides ofthe horizontal portion of the first positioning engagement portion 25and the second positioning engagement portion 26 substantially matcheswith the thickness of the first positioning engagement portion 25 andthe second positioning engagement portion 26, such that the firstpositioning engagement portion 25 and the second positioning engagementportion 26 can be inserted into the spaces between the first positioninghook 113, the second positioning hook 114, and the bottom plate of theouter rail 111. As shown in FIG. 9, when the fixing seat 20 is disposedon the rear end of the slide rail 10, the first positioning hook 113 andthe second positioning hook 114 respectively hook onto the firstpositioning engagement portion 25 and the second positioning engagementportion 26 such that the guiding extension portion 22 is fixed on thebottom plate of the outer rail 111.

As shown in FIG. 2 to FIG. 5, the sliding seat 30 disposed on theguiding extension portion 22 of the fixing seat 20 is slidable alonglongitudinal axis direction D1. A receiving portion 31 penetrating fromthe top surface to the bottom surface is formed on the center of thesliding seat 30 to accommodate the hook member 40. A pivot slot 32 isformed at the two sidewalls of the receiving portion 31 along thehorizontal axis direction to engage a rotating shaft 41 of the two sidesof the hook member 40 therein such that the hook member 40 can bedisposed on the sliding seat 30 pivotally.

As shown in FIG. 4 to FIG. 6, an upwardly concave bottom slide groove 33is formed at the bottom surface of the sliding seat 30, and the guidingextension portion 22 can be accommodated into the bottom slide groove33. Two inwardly protruding flanges 331 are respectively formed on thebottom edge of the opposite sides of the bottom slide groove 33. Twoside grooves 332 are respectively formed between the two flanges 331 andthe upper sidewalls of the bottom slide groove 33. When the sliding seat30 is disposed on the guiding extension portion 22, two guiding flanges223 are respectively engaged in the two side grooves 332. Therefore, thebottom of the sliding seat 30 is slidably sleeved on the guidingextension portion 22.

As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 9, and FIG. 10, the two springs 60 are disposedon two sides of the fixing seat 20 and the sliding seat 30 along thehorizontal axis direction D2 in parallel. In the present embodiment, abottom surface of the fixing seat 20 has two first spring fixingportions 24 disposed on the two sides of the bottom surface of thefixing seat 20 along the horizontal axis direction D2. Two sides of thesliding seat 30 opposite to the two first spring fixing portions 24along the horizontal axis direction D2 also has two second spring fixingportions 34. A front end of the two springs 60 are connected between thetwo first spring fixing portions 24 and the two second spring fixingportions 34. When the sliding seat 30 moves to a first position 221, thetwo springs 60 can be stretched and then accumulate elastic force. Whenthe two springs 60 rebound, the sliding seat 30 can be displaced to asecond position 222 by the elastic force of the two springs 60.

The buffer 70 includes a buffer cylinder 72 and a telescopic rod 71disposed within the buffer cylinder 72. The buffer cylinder 72 can beinserted into a buffer receiving portion 212 disposed at the center ofthe fixing seat 20, and the telescopic rod 71 is can stretch along thelongitudinal axis direction D1. A front end of the telescopic rod 71 isconnected to a telescopic rod connecting portion 35 of the rear end ofthe sliding seat 30. When the sliding seat 30 moves toward the secondposition 222, the telescopic rod 71 can be driven to be shortened suchthat the buffer cylinder 72 generates a dampening force.

As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the hook member 40 has the rotatingshafts 41 disposed on two sides of the hook member 40 along thehorizontal axis direction D2. The hook member 40 is pivotally connectedto the receiving portion 31 of the sliding seat 30 through the tworotating shafts 41. The hook member 40 defines a side of the hook member40 toward the guiding extension portion 22 as a bottom surface, anddefines a side of the hook member 40 toward the inner rail 12 as a topsurface. The bottom surface of the hook member 40 has a first hook 42,and the top surface of the hook member 40 has a second hook 43. Abackside of the top surface of the hook member 40 has an abuttingprotrusion 44.

The connecting member 50 is disposed on the inner rail 12 such that theinner rail 12 can be interlinked with the hook member 40 and the slidingseat 30. The connecting member 50 is fixed in a rivet hole 124 of thebottom plate of the inner rail 121 by a rivet 51. A top end ofconnecting member 50 has a connecting protrusion 52. The connectingmember 50 can be engaged to a connecting hole 125 formed on the bottomplate of the inner rail 121 such that the connecting member 50 ispositioned on the bottom plate of the inner rail 121.

As shown in FIG. 9 to FIG. 11, the connecting member 50 has a connectinggroove 53 formed on a side of the connecting member 50 facing toward theouter rail 11. A driving inclined plane 54 is formed on a backside ofthe connecting member 50. When the sliding seat 30 is positioned at thefirst position 221, the first hook 4 of the hook member 40 can beengaged in the positioning slot 23. When the connecting member 50 isdisplaced rearward with the inner rail 12, the driving inclined plane 54is pushed up to the abutting protrusion 44 of the hook member 40.Therefore, the hook member 40 is driven to swing along the directiontoward the inner rail 12 such that the first hook 42 is separated fromthe positioning slot 23 and the second hook 43 is engaged into theconnecting groove 53 of the connecting member 50.

When the hook member 40 connected with the connecting member 50 isseparated from the positioning slot 23, the sliding seat 30 can be movedtoward the second position 222 by the two springs 60. The inner rail 12is also moved to the closed position as the sliding seat 30 is displacedrearward. In the above manner, when the inner rail 12 is pushed near theclosed position such that the connecting member 50 is connected with thehook member 40, the inner rail 12 can be automatically displaced to theclosed position by the two springs 60.

As shown in FIG. 11, when the inner rail 12 moves from the closedposition to the opened position, the connecting member 50 can drive thehook member 40 and the sliding seat 30 to be displaced from the secondposition 222 to the first position 221. When the sliding seat 30 isdisplaced to the first position 221 and the first hook 42 is alignedwith the positioning slot 23, the hook member 40 can swing toward theguiding extension portion 22 such that the first hook 42 is engaged inthe positioning slot 23, and the second hook 43 and the connectinggroove 53 are disengaged.

As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 7, and FIG. 8, another feature of thepresent embodiment is that a fixing seat 20 has two side positioningmembers 27 respectively disposed on the two sides of the fixing seat 20along the horizontal axis direction D2. When the inner rail 12 moves tothe closed position, the rear end of the inner rail 12 can be engagedwith the two side positioning members 27. In the present embodiment, thetwo side positioning members 27 are integrally formed on the two sidesof the body portion 21 of the fixing seat 20 along the horizontal axisdirection D2. Each of the side positioning members 27 includes ahorizontal connecting portion 271 connected to two sides of the bodyportion 21 along the horizontal axis direction D2, a positioning plate272 connected to an end of the horizontal connecting portions 271opposite to the body portion 21, and a positioning protrusion 273opposite to the position of the ball groove 123 of the inner rail 12. Aspacing between inner sides of the two positioning plates 272 isslightly greater than a width of the inner rail 12 along the horizontalaxis direction D2 such that the two sides of the inner rail 12 along thehorizontal axis direction D2 can be accommodated between the twopositioning plates 272. The two positioning protrusions 273 and the twoball grooves 123 complement each other in shape. Therefore, when theinner rail 12 is displaced to the closed position, the two positioningprotrusions 273 can be connected with the rear ends of the two ballgrooves 123 of the inner rail 12. Therefore, the rear end of the innerrail 12 and the two side positioning members 27 are connected, and therear end of the inner rail 12 can be prevented from being shaken so asto prevent the connecting member 50 and the hook member 40 from beingdetached.

The foregoing description of the exemplary embodiments of the disclosurehas been presented only for the purposes of illustration and descriptionand is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to theprecise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possiblein light of the above teaching.

The embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain theprinciples of the disclosure and their practical application so as toenable others skilled in the art to utilize the disclosure and variousembodiments and with various modifications as are suited to theparticular use contemplated. Alternative embodiments will becomeapparent to those skilled in the art to which the present disclosurepertains without departing from its spirit and scope.

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A self-locking slide rail device with buffer mechanism comprising: aslide rail including an outer rail and an inner rail, wherein the outerrail defines a longitudinal axis direction and a horizontal axisdirection, and two ends of the outer rail along the longitudinal axisdirection are respectively defined as a front end and a rear end;wherein the slide rail has a bottom plate of the outer rail andsidewalls of the outer rail located on two sides of the bottom plate ofthe outer rail along the horizontal axis direction; wherein the innerrail is disposed on the outer rail, and the inner rail is capable ofreciprocally moving along the longitudinal axis direction between anopen position near the front end of the outer rail and a closed positionnear the rear end of the outer rail; a fixing seat disposed on the rearend of the outer rail, wherein the fixing seat has a body portion and aguiding extension portion, wherein the guiding extension portion isconnected to the front end of the body portion and extends towards adirection of the front end of the slide rail, and the fixing seat has apositioning slot formed at the position near the front end position ofthe guiding extension portion; a sliding seat slidably disposed on theguiding extension portion and being capable of reciprocally movingbetween a first position adjacent to the front end of the guidingextension portion and a second position adjacent to the rear end of theguiding extension portion; a hook member swingably disposed on thesliding seat, wherein when the sliding seat moves to the first position,the hook member is capable of being engaged in the positioning slot soas to fixedly position the sliding seat at the first position; twosprings disposed in parallel with each other on the fixing seat and twosides of the sliding seat along the horizontal axis direction, whereintwo ends of each of the two springs are respectively connected to thefixing seat and the sliding seat; a connecting member disposed on a sideof a bottom plate of the inner rail facing towards the outer rail,wherein when the inner rail moves to the closed position, the connectingmember is capable of driving the hook member to swing and disengage fromthe positioning slot, such that the hook member is coupled to theconnecting member; wherein the inner rail and the sliding seat arecapable of interlinking with each other by the hook member and theconnecting member so as to be capable of synchronous movement; and abuffer disposed on the center of the body portion, and the bufferincluding a buffer cylinder and a telescopic rod telescopically disposedwithin the buffer cylinder, wherein a front end of the telescopic rod isconnected to the rear end of the sliding seat and is capable ofstretching along the longitudinal axis direction, wherein the slidingseat is capable of shortening the telescopic rod when the sliding seatmoves toward the second position; wherein the fixing seat has a firstpositioning engagement portion that is disposed on the guiding extensionportion and protruding toward the front end direction of the slide rail,and the fixing seat further has a second positioning engagement portiondisposed between the first positioning engagement portion and the bodyportion, wherein the slide rail further includes a first positioninghook and a second positioning hook respectively disposed on thepositions where the bottom plate of the outer rail corresponds to thefirst positioning engagement portion and the second positioningengagement portion, and wherein the first positioning hook engages withthe first positioning engagement portion, and the second positioninghook engages with the second positioning engagement portion; wherein twoside positioning members are respectively disposed on two sides of thebody portion of the fixing seat along the horizontal axis direction,wherein when the inner rail moves to the closed position, the rear endof the inner rail is accommodated between the two side positioningmembers, wherein the two side positioning members each have a horizontalconnecting portion, a positioning plate and a positioning protrusion,wherein the two horizontal connecting portions are connected to twosides of the body portion along the horizontal axis direction, whereinthe two positioning plates are connected to an end of the horizontalconnecting portion opposite to the body portion wherein a spacingbetween the two positioning plates is greater than a width of the innerrail along the horizontal axis direction so as to accommodate the rearend of the inner rail, and wherein the two positioning protrusions areformed at inner side surfaces of the two positioning plates, and the twopositioning protrusions and two grooves of the inner rail correspond toeach other in position and complement each other in shape so as to beconnected to each other; wherein two sides of the body portion of thefixing seat along the horizontal axis direction each has a top supportportion, and the two top support portions are capable of respectivelyabutting against the inner side surfaces of the two sidewalls of theouter rail, and wherein the fixing seat is fixed on the rear end of theouter rail by interference between the two top support portions and thetwo sidewalls of the outer rail.
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 4. Theself-locking slide rail device according to the claim 1, wherein thesliding seat has a receiving portion, and a pivot slot is formed at thetwo sidewalls of the receiving portion along the horizontal axisdirection, wherein the hook member is capable of being received in thereceiving portion, and the hook member has a rotating shaft at the twosides along the horizontal axis direction, and wherein the two rotatingshafts are respectively capable of being engaged in the two pivot slots.5. The self-locking slide rail device according to the claim 4, whereina first hook is formed at a side of the hook member facing toward theguiding extension portion, and a second hook and an abutting protrusionare formed at a side of the hook member opposite to the guidingextension portion, wherein when the sliding seat moves to the firstposition, the first hook is capable of being aligned with thepositioning slot and being engaged in the positioning slot; wherein adriving inclined plane and a connecting groove are formed on a side ofthe connecting member facing toward the outer rail, wherein the drivinginclined plane of the connecting member is capable of pushing theabutting protrusion to drive the hook member to swing and disengage fromthe positioning slot, such that the second hook is engaged in theconnecting groove such that the connecting member and the hook membertogether are coupled to each other.
 6. The self-locking slide raildevice according to the claim 5, wherein a bottom slide groove is formedat the bottom surface of the sliding seat, and the guiding extensionportion is received in the bottom slide groove such that the slidingseat is slidably disposed at the guiding extension portion.
 7. Theself-locking slide rail device according to the claim 6, wherein aguiding flange is formed at two sides of the guiding extension portionalong the horizontal axis direction, and a side groove is formed on twosidewalls of the bottom slide groove along the horizontal axisdirection, and wherein when the sliding seat is disposed on the guidingextension portion, the two guiding flanges are respectively engaged inthe two side grooves.